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Recipe: Pasta alla Norcina | KCET

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Recipe: Pasta alla Norcina

Want to step up your pasta game? This dish from America's Test Kitchen, with sausage and mushrooms in a cream sauce, looks and tastes like it came from a restaurant, but it's perfectly easy to make at home.

Heat 2 teaspoons oil in 10-inch skillet over medium-high heat until just smoking. Add patty and cook without moving it until bottom is browned, 1 to 2 minutes. Flip patty and continue to cook until second side is well browned, 1 to 2 minutes longer (very center of patty will be raw). Remove pan from heat, transfer sausage to cutting board, and roughly chop into 1/8- to 1/4-inch pieces. Transfer sausage to bowl and add cream; set aside.

Bring 2 quarts water to boil in large Dutch oven. Add pasta and 1 tablespoon salt and cook, stirring often, until al dente. Reserve 3/4 cup cooking water, then drain pasta and return it to pot.

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